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Sovereign Grace Church Co-op Drama Club will present “I Never Saw Another Butterfly,” a play based on real-life stories of Jewish children and their families living in the Terezin ghetto in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust.

The junior and senior high school student cast portrays everyday heroes like Irena Synkova, a schoolteacher played by Ruth Briggs.

“Her goal in life is to care for these…children, she wants… to make them happy… She made such a big imprint, even though she’s a fictional character, she’s based off of real people,” Briggs said.

The play inspires people to find good in painful situations.

Jared Okada, who plays a rabbi, said, “The rabbis tried to keep everyone together and keep everyone’s hopes up, even though most likely most of them would be going to their deaths.”

Terezin operated from 1942 to 1945 as a transit and labor camp for prisoners en route to the Auschwitz death camp, and was also used in Nazi propaganda.

Fifteen thousand people passed through,